Tribune News Service
New Delhi, May 21

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday announced its decision to appoint Sachidanand Srivastava, a 1985-batch UT cadre IPS officer as the regular Commissioner of Police, Delhi.

Srivastava is scheduled to superannuate on June 30, 2021.

In its order, the MHA said, “SN Shrivastava, presently holding the additional charge of Commissioner of Police, Delhi is hereby appointed to the post of Commissioner of Police.”

It further said that he would hold the post until further orders.

Before being shifted to his home cadre in Delhi Police in the last week of February 2020, Srivastava was Special DG (Training) in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF).

He was drafted as Special Commissioner of Police (law and order) in the Delhi Police on February 26, 2020 and two days later (February 28, 2020) he got the command of Delhi Police as an ad-hoc arrangement.

It is to be noted here that following the completion of Amulya Patnaik’s month-long extension as the Commissioner of Police on February 28, 2020 Srivastava was assigned the additional charge to head the police force in the national capital.

It took Srivastava almost 15 months to prove himself and bag the position as regular CP of Delhi.